Ministerial Summit on Employability 2016 & 2017

On Wednesday 23 November 2016, the Minister for Employability
and
Training, Jamie Hepburn MSP, hosted the Scottish Government's
Ministerial
Summit on Employability - Scotland's New Services: Bringing about
a step change in Employability Support.

During this event, the Minister in his
speech outlined the progress towards delivering
transitional services from April 2017, and also set out more
detail on Scotland's fully devolved employment services from 2018.
Please see the related news
release.

Background

The Scottish Government is committed to working in partnership
and
involving those who use and those who deliver employment support
in Scotland
has been a constant driver as we work to reshape employability
support services
in Scotland. The Ministerial Summit on Employability included a
broad spectrum
of organisations within the employability network and aimed to
harness the
breadth of knowledge and expertise, with a particular emphasis on
developing
the approach to integration and alignment.

As outlined in the
Programme further contributions were made as noted below:

A panel discussion on 'Delivering a Step-Change for People
Using New
Employment Services'. The panel consisted of Laurie Russell (The
Wise
Group), Professor Alan McGregor (Glasgow University), Pamela Smith
(SLAED),
Denise Horsfall (DWP) and Mike McElhinney (Scottish Government).
The discussion was supported by a short film which captured the
views of The Prince's Trust volunteers who shared their views on
the help they received and what aspects could be improved.